Locker Room Resources

Locker rooms are no longer solely a place for your members to change out of your work clothes and into their athletic attire before hitting the treadmill. Today, locker rooms are “changing” into much more.

Locker Room Guidelines The number one trick to designing a locker room is finding the balance between the quantity of lockers with the needs of the facility, says Doni Visani, senior principal at Ohlson Lavoie Collaborative. Although Visani says designing a locker room is more “art than science,” here are five tips:

· Long the norm in big cities, full-length lockers aren’t a necessity. If your members generally come in wearing casual attire, a half-sized locker should be large enough. · For every piece of equipment that gets used by 10 people a day, you’ll need one locker. So, if you have 50 cardio pieces all of which are used by 10 people or more a day, you’ll need at least 50 lockers. · Only three to five people can comfortably be in a single bay at once. · Ideally, you’d like to always have an empty locker next to a member who is changing. · Place towel drops at all locker room exits and throughout your locker area. These visual reminders can deter the temptation to take towels home.